Rotten
This tedious mockumentary isn't even as entertaining as one of Ed Wood's actual films, and once-promising director Justin Lin has some karma to square for fumbling such a sure thing.
Mark Rahner, Seattle Times
Finishing the Game: The Search for a New Bruce Lee
2007 · 1h 24m · Not Rated
Comedy
Directed by
Justin Lin
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Finishing the Game: The Search for a New Bruce Lee
Overview
In 1973, martial arts great Bruce Lee died, his final film, Game of Death, left unfinished. With the public hungry for more Lee, movie execs decide to find a replacement. This outrageous satire looks at the entire process, from the oddball candidates to the greed and racial motivations that drive the final decision. There's big business in the movies, and Finishing the Game skewers it with an eye for '70s detail.
Director and cast
- Justin Lin Director
- Roger Fan as Breeze Loo
- McCaleb Burnett as Tarrick Tyler
- Sung Kang as Cole Kim
- Dustin Nguyen as Troy Poon
- Mousa Kraish as Raja
- James Franco as Dean Silo
- Jake Sandvig as Ronney Kurtainbaum
- Meredith Scott Lynn as Eloise Gazdag
- Monique Gabriela Curnen as Saraghina Rivas
- Sam Bottoms Cast
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
34%
Tomatometer
Fresh
The breezy tone and obvious fun being had by the cast make Finishing the Game a slight, low-key cool cinematic essay on identity politics.
Ernest Hardy, L.A. Weekly
Fresh
A very funny, equal-opportunity broadside that targets Asian stereotyping, and not just by non-Asians.
David Wiegand, San Francisco Chronicle
Rotten
What little potential there is ends up squandered within nanoseconds; as both a parody and a polemic, the film is finished before it's barely begun.
David Fear, Time Out New York
Rotten
Finishing The Game doesn't get anywhere that Hollywood Shuffle didn't go to first.
Noel Murray, AV Club
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